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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Paramount Builders is proud to sponsor coverage of all of the 2022 American Samoa High School Graduations, and wishes all graduates a successful journey into the future. Be Safe. Seventeen students graduated from the Iakina Adventist Academy.
The commencement ceremony...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Citing that the courts in American Samoa are the proper venue, U.S District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden dismissed without prejudice a complaint filed with the federal court in Washington D.C. against ASG and more than 70 American Samoa officials including former Gov....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the number of positive cases from the community spread of COVID-19 has remained low over the past two weeks, the COVID-19 Task Force is looking at recommending the of easing more “internal” restrictions, while still maintaining other protocols in place as new diseases...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A bus driver has admitted that on/ or about July 23, 2021 he had in his possession a glass pipe containing methamphetamine (meth).
Wesley Faapale appeared in court last week for a Change of Plea hearing.
Faapale was initially charged with unlawful possession of meth. But...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A local group of investors is proposing to purchase the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS), the government-owned bank that started operating when Bank of Hawaii departed American Samoa four years ago.
In a letter to Governor Lemanu Mauga dated April 26, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Wind Turbine Farm project spear-headed by the American Samoa Power Authority to reduce dependency on fossil fuels, will cost over $100 million, with construction slated for around 2024, and plans to be operational two years later, according to summary information...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga has issued an order calling for the Constitutional Convention to convene on August 29, 2022, and in a separate executive order urges County Councils to begin meetings to discuss and appoint their respective delegates to the Constitutional...
Pago Pago, AMERIAN SAMOA — Representative Faimealelei Anthony Allen, a member of the hospital board is “demanding” the LBJ hospital board meet as there are “pertinent issues that require an explanation.”
In an interview with Samoa News, Faimealelei who was recently reappointed to the American Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a letter to U.S President Joe Biden opposing the federal government’s proposed expansion of Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM), Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga said such a move “would have a significant negative impact on the economy of American Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Paramount Builders is proud to sponsor coverage of all of the 2022 American Samoa High School Graduations, and wishes all graduates a successful journey into the future. Be Safe. On Saturday morning, June 11, 2022, the families and friends of the 65-member 2022...